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Released
1964 · FILM

Kiss Me, Stupid

“It happened in Climax, Nevada”

Directed by
Billy Wilder
Written by
Billy Wilder, I A L Diamond
Runtime
125 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

While traveling home from Las Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino is tricked by a local mechanic and songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for the evening and recruits a local waitress and call girl to pretend as his wife in an effort to satisfy Dino's romantic inclinations.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel MandellShot by Joseph LashelleScored by Andre PrevinDesigned by Alexandre Trauner

Box Office

1964 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.0M

Budget$3.5M
Worldwide gross$10.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Küss mich, Dummkopfde
  • Bésame, tontoes
  • Embrasse-moi, idiotfr
  • Baciami, stupidoit

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